Kansas City

They'll have to charge you for double, but with the discount it'll even out! The semi-fictitious Braidwood Inn in Wichita (now called the Sun Motel) is actually off Interstate 55 in Braidwood, IL, southwest of Chicago.

Schmelzer's All Nations was a barnstorming, baseball team established in 1912 in Kansas City. The was sponsored by Schmelzer's Arms, a manufacturer of firearms. At the time the team was formed, there was no major league baseball west of St. Louis. The nickname reflected...

The Savoy Grill is part of the historic Savoy Hotel and Grill complex in Kansas City, Missouri and is the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi.

Jackie Robinson best known for breaking the color barrier in the modern era of baseball, but fans of the sport also recognize his extra ordinary talent. After playing for the Negro American League's Kansas City Monarchs in 1945, he was signed by Brooklyn and...

KCKN began broadcasting in 1925 (as WLBF) and was one of the oldest commercial radio stations in the United States. Heard on 1340 AM an FM signal at 94.1 was added in 1963. After several ownership changes, it is today known as KDTD.

Electric Park was the name used for two amusement parks in Kansas City. The first opened in 1899 while the second, larger version began welcoming visitors in 1907 and lasted until 1925 when it was destroyed by a late night fire. Young Walt Disney...

Boardwalk and Baseball was a theme park in Haines City, FL that opened in April 1987. It replaced Circus World, keeping many of that park's rides but otherwise completely re-theming the entire property. The park was successful in attracting the Kansas City Royals baseball...

Venture was a chain of discount department stores headquartered in St. Louis in 1968. It was founded by former executives from Target and May Company and at its height had nearly 50 locations in the Midwest. The chain went out of business in 1998.

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

Spartan Mart was a discount department store chain that operated in the 1960s and 1970s.

Four Winds Restaurant was an eatery located in the main terminal building of the Kansas City Municipal Airport (now the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport) in the 1950s.

Introduced in 1982, the Commodore 64 is the single best selling computer model of all time. Along with the Apple II, it helped usher in the era of home computing for millions.

The DuMont Television Network began broadcasting on June 28, 1942, the nation's third TV network behind NBC and CBS. Regular network service began on August 15, 1946. It was started by DuMont Laboratories, a maker of TVs. Financial strains and fierce competition from NBC,...

Musicland was founded in Minneapolis in 1955.?? In 1964, it merged with music distributor JL Marsh followed by merger in 1968 with record label and distributor Pickwick International. In 1977, American Can Company bought Pickwick and a year later, famed New York record store...

The Tennessee Rats were a black baseball team formed in 1910 in Holden, MO by W.A. Brown. Primarily a barnstorming team, they played until 1926. They mostly toured Missouri and surrounding states. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

In the early 1950s, between 20,000-60,000 people a year were becoming afflicted with polio. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh developed a polio vaccine in 1952. By 1955 a campaign to vaccinate children in the U.S. was launched. ALbert Sabin...

Woodsy Owl first appeared in 1971 and asked Americans to take better care of the environment by disposing of trash properly. An??updated version??of Woodsy was developed in the 1990s.

Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Check out the sticker!

If you didn't have MTV in the early to mid '80s, or even if you did, you were parked in front of the TV to watch??Friday Night Videos??on NBC after??The Tonight Show.

Somethings never change.